## OF THE SOUTHERN FRONT

To Kozlov
Revolutionary Military Council, Southern Front

A detachment of textile workers from Ivanovo-Voznesensk, assembled for the evacuation of the Donets Basin, is idle at Kastornaya station. The leave period has expired.

I propose that those willing be assigned to the food supply army, and those unwilling be returned to Ivanovo-Voznesensk. Those of conscript age are to be considered mobilized; the physically weak of conscript age are to be transferred to the food supply army. I request that the question be discussed and a precise directive issued*.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

written by the hand of L. A. Fotiyeva,
supplemented and signed
by V. I. Lenin

* The text from the words "I request that the question" is written by the hand of V. I. Lenin. Ed.

Written June 25, 1919

First published in 1942
in Lenin Collection XXXIV

Printed according to the text,